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Eleven Cabrini-Green households learned Friday that they have 30 days to leave their Near North Side homes. Chicago Housing Authority officials promised to relocate residents nearby or elsewhere if they choose. Occupancy for the red brick mid-rise at 862 N. Sedgwick St. is at slightly less than 17 percent, with 11 of 65 units filled. Officials specifically point to the danger posed by squatters who break into vacant units, sometimes starting open fires to stay warm.

Ronald Sedgwick, age 71, died Dec. 13, 2007 at Advocate Lutheran General Hospital, beloved husband of Nancy; dear father of Rhonda Johnson of Paducah, KY and Judy Bajt of Bonnerdale, AR; four stepchildren; eight grandchildren; and nine great-grandchildren. He was a member of NABET-CWA, the Motion Picture Studio Mechanics, Local 476, the Theatrical Mechanics Stagehand Union, Local 2 and he was a Lifetime Mason, Cecilie Lodge #865. Mr. Sedgwick was retired from ABC television news, where he had worked for 27 years.

The main entrance to the Sedgwick station is set to reopen Monday on the CTA Brown Line after months of reconstruction. Sedgwick becomes the 78th CTA rail station accessible to riders with disabilities. The CTA is scheduled to reopen the Brown Line's Montrose station Nov. 26 and close the Damen station for up to a year. In December, the Addison station is set to reopen, and the Irving Park station will close for about a year, the CTA said. FROM NEWS SERVICES

The following residential real estate sales for the city of Chicago were recorded in February and March. The home sales data come from Record Information Services Inc., which provides a variety of public record data to business, government and consumers. RIS covers the Illinois counties of Cook, Champaign, Dekalb, Dupage, Kane, Kendall, Lake, McHenry, St. Clair and Will. Databases include foreclosures, mortgages, new homeowners, new businesses, bankruptcies, tax liens, divorces and probate.

There are few purer pleasures than watching Kyra Sedgwick play Brenda Leigh Johnson. In the thirdseason premiere of "The Closer" (8 p.m. Monday, TNT), Deputy Chief Johnson interrogates a hospitalized young man who is the only survivor of a vicious attack -- the rest of his family was found stabbed to death in their home. And if there's one thing Johnson doesn't like, it's an evasive suspect. She gets angry. Very angry. But the genius of the character is that Johnson cannily uses her emotions in the course of an investigation.

The CTA Brown Line Diversey station will temporarily close June 25 for one year for renovations. CTA officials suggest adjacent stations -- Wellington and Fullerton -- to access the Brown Line. Also, there are six nearby bus routes: No. 8 Halsted, No. 11 Lincoln/Sedgwick, No. 22 Clark, No. 36 Broadway, No. 74 Fullerton and No. 76 Diversey. Construction crews will improve and extend platforms, rebuild the stationhouse and make it accessible to the disabled.

In My Blood: Six Generations of Madness and Desire in an American Family By John Sedgwick HarperCollins, 400 pages, $25.95 Dig deeply into any family history and you're bound to unearth a mosaic of tragedies and farces, but few families have given rise to as many prominent figures as the Sedgwick clan has, few have created such archival treasures, and few can trace their American lineage back to 1635. That was the year Robert Sedgwick left Yorkshire, England, for the New World, where he experienced the best of entrepreneurial opportunities when he opened the Colonies' first brewery, and the worst of imperialist fates when he died during England's brutal conquest of Jamaica.